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George Wein and Yosvany Terry Interviewed at AAJ
While impresario George Wein may be best known for his responsibility in organizing events like the Newport Jazz Festvial, he's also a player with no shortage of talent and experience with more renowned players. George Kanzler caught up with Wein to discuss the playing side of the equation, and that interview is now up at AAJ: ...
Yosvany Terry: Growth from Tradition
by Tomas Pena
Saxophonist, composer, arranger Yosvany Terry received his early musical training from his father, Eladio “Don Pancho Terry. He is a graduate of the National School of Art and Amadeo Roldan Conservatory in Cuba. He has performed with Chucho Valdes, Sylvio Rodriguez, Jesus Alemany y Cubanismo, Jane Bunnett and the Spirits of Havana, Dafnis Pietro, Avishai Cohen, ...
George Wein: A Life in Music
by George Kanzler
No matter what you think of the jazz festival, you can't think of it without thinking of George Wein. In 1954 he presented the first Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, and it became the template for the modern jazz festival. Wein went on to bring the jazz festival concept to New York, where it has ...
Guitarist Marc Ribot Interviewed at AAJ
Few guitarists can cite the wide range of collaborations of Marc Ribot. From Tom Waits to John Zorn; from Wilson Pickett to Elvis Costello; from Don Byron to David Sylvian, Ribot's distinctive yet wide-reaching approach can be heard on hundreds of recordings. His own output as a leader may be smaller but is equally diverse, ranging ...
Marc Ribot: That's the Way I View It From New York
by Paul Olson
Guitarist/composer Marc Ribot's played with Elvis Costello, Arto Lindsay, John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Tom Waits, John Lurie, Wilson Pickett, Anthony Coleman, Don Byron and about a million other musicians. As a leader, he's led such groups as Shrek and the Rootless Cosmopolitans and written and performed a wildly varied body of work on his own recordings. ...
Franz Koglmann interviewed today at AAJ
Viennese trumpeter Franz Koglmann's spent the better part of his life marrying all manner of art forms into his music, from West Coast cool to European classicism to the perhaps difficult-to-find nexus point of seemingly disparate non-musical areas including architecture, poetry, film and philosophy. All About Jazz contributor Eyal Hareuveni spoke with Koglmannn following a performance ...
Franz Koglmann: Viewing Jazz through Other Arts
by Eyal Hareuveni
The music of Viennese composer/trumpeter/flugelhornist Franz Koglmann sounds like no other. He manages to marry his love for the West Coast cool jazz with elements from European modern and classic music composers, especially Franz Schubert, Alban Berg and Anton von Webern. His thematic compositions, recorded almost solely for the Swiss, Basel-based HatHut and for the German, ...
